Japan Steps Up Ebola Aid, Sets Treatment Plans

Amid growing worries that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa might be spreading beyond the region, Japan is taking part in global efforts to fight the disease.

On Wednesday, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Barack Obama discussed the issue over the phone. In the case of an Ebola virus outbreak within Japan, 47 hospitals that are equipped for treating the most serious infectious diseases and have isolation facilities can accept patients, according to an official at the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.